Zebulon Pike Quotes
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
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The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
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The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.
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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
